The resulting images from 50 mm and 70 mm lenses for different sensor sizes; 36x24 mm (red) and 24x18 mm (blue)
In photography, the 35 mm equivalent focal length is a measure of the angle of view for a particular combination of a camera lens and film or image sensor size. The term is popular because in the early years of digital photography, most photographers experienced with interchangeable lenses were most familiar with the 35 mm film format.
On any 35 mm film camera, a 28 mm lens is a wide-angle lens, and a 200 mm lens is a long-focus lens. Because digital cameras have mostly replaced film cameras and the image sensor size that also determines the angle of view is not standardized as the film size was, there is no uniform relation between the lens focal length and the angle of view due to possibilities of using various image sensor sizes at the same focal length (i.e., a different image sensor size resulting in a different angle of view at the same lens focal length). The 35 mm equivalent focal length of a particular lens–sensor combination is the focal length that one would need for a 35 mm film camera to obtain the same angle of view. Two lens-sensor combinations with the same 35 mm equivalent focal length are expected to have the same angle of view.
Most commonly, the 35 mm equivalent focal length is based on equal diagonal angle of view.[1] This definition is also in the CIPA guideline DCG-001.[2] Alternatively, it may sometimes be based on horizontal angle of view. Since 35 mm film is normally used for images with an aspect ratio (width-to-height ratio) of 3:2, while many digital cameras have a 4:3 aspect ratio, which have different diagonal-to-width ratios, these two definitions are often not equivalent, i.e., the equivalent focal length based on the diagonal angle of view differs from the equivalent focal length based on the horizontal angle of view.
^What is "35 mm equivalent focal length?" The Panorama Factory, 2004.
^"CIPA DCG-001-Translation-2005 Guideline for Noting Digital Camera Specifications in Catalogs" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2017-02-02. Retrieved 2015-10-19.
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